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Dairy farmers have sent a clear message, reiterating their strong desire for farmers and processors to work together in the interests of Australian dairy, following a vote at Dairy Australia’s Annual General Meeting.
A resolution put forward by ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) has welcomed amendments passed in the Legislative Council yesterday to strengthen protections for farmers from long-term mining and energy exploration on agricultural land, but the ‘make it up as you go along’ approach relating ...
South Australian Dairyfarmers Call on Political Parties to Back Sector Growth
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) has launched its pre-election policy platform, Plan to Farm, calling on all political parties to commit to ...
The South Australian Dairy Industry gathered in style on Friday night for the 2025 South Australian Dairy Awards Gala, hosted by the Dairy Industry Association of Australia (SA Branch). Set against the whimsical theme of "A Dairy Wonderland", the event ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers Association (SADA) is proud to support National Farm Safety Week 2025 (20–26 July), urging all South Australian dairy farmers to reflect on the close calls and "near misses" that too often happen on our farms.
This year’s ...
Australia’s peak representative group for dairy farmers has expressed serious concerns following the competition watchdog’s decision not to oppose a potential deal between two of the industry’s biggest dairy businesses. Australian Dairy Farmers (ADF) President, Ben Bennett, said the ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers' Association (SADA) today welcomes the announcement by Golden North which is seen as securing the company's future and building a great foundation for its further growth.
Golden North is an iconic South Australia dairy industry brand and ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers' Association (SADA) today extends its sincere gratitude to the South Australian Government for the delivery of $3 million in critical support to dairy farmers impacted by the collapse of Beston Global Food Company.
The sudden financial distress ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers' Association (SADA) has today expressed concern over the milk prices announced by major processors for the 2025–26 financial year.
While a handful of local processors have maintained healthy pricing, SADA ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) is pleased to welcome the Hon. Julie Collins MP, Federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, on her visit to South Australia this week.
Minister Collins’ first stop will be a tour of ...
The effects of the Beston closure has been far-reaching for Brad Fischer's business at Meningie.
Meningie dairy farmer Brad Fischer says the significant amount of money owed to producers following the closure of the Beston Global Food Company was a total ...
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The South Australian government has provided $3 million in support for dairy farmers affected by the collapse of Beston Global Food.
The funds will provide relief for farmers who have been struggling with increasing costs and ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers' Association welcomes the announcement that South Australian Dairy farmers impacted by the collapse of Beston Global Food will receive financial support through a State Government assistance program.
SADA will administer ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers' Association (SADA) has welcomed today's announcement by the Premier, Treasurer and Primary Industries Minister to support drought-affected farmers and communities across South Australia.
SADA President, Robert Brokenshire stated "We are ...
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New US tariffs on Australian exports are set to hurt beef and defence ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers' Association (SADA) is calling attention to the ongoing trade tariff developments between the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and the potential implications for Australia’s dairy market, trade, and industry.
As the peak ...
The peak national representative body for the Australian dairy industry is concerned the Victorian Government’s move to merge the state’s dairy food safety regulator puts the multi-billion dollar industry at risk.The proposed reforms – part of a broader strategy ...
After seven years with Dairy Australia, David Nation has made the decision to move on from his role as Managing Director and will finish in June 2025.
With Dairy Australia’s current five-year Strategic Plan concluding and a new strategy commencing in ...
SADA president Robert Brokenshire, Hindmarsh Tiers dairy farmer Mandy Pacitti and Golden North managing director Peter Adamo at the relaunch of the Do Dairy campaign.
The South Australian dairy industry has relaunched its 'Do Dairy' campaign as it encourages consumers to ...
DoDairy celebrates the quality, sustainability, and innovation of South Australia’s dairy industry. In recent times South Australian dairy has experienced some challenges driven by drought and markets. Many people and groups have been asking us "how can we ...
The winding up of Beston Global Food Company from today has been met with disappointment by the South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA).
SADA had worked tirelessly with farmers, administrators and potential investors with a ...
Beston Global Food Company has announced that on Friday it appointed KPMG as voluntary administrators following "a perfect storm of adverse events in recent times".
"Beston went into COVID with relatively little debt and came out the other side with ...
Beleaguered dairy group Beston Global Foods has entered voluntary administration, following a series of sales of its manufacturing assets.
Multinational accountancy firm KPMG confirmed the South Australian-centred business would ...
Brenton Higgins recipient David Basham in the Guernsey ring with his trophy. Picture by Elizabeth Anderson
Fifth generation dairyfarmer and politician David Basham has been recognised for his contribution to the dairy sector with ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) today warmly welcomed Australia’s new bilateral trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the expectation that it will increase SA’s existing trade with the UAE.
Farmers have inundated the Commonwealth with so many offers to sell water entitlements in the Southern Murray Darling-Basin that it should have "no problem" in reaching its target of 70 gigalitres to be returned to environmental flows in the current ...
Belinda Willis | September 6, 2024 - 5:06PM Messenger Mount Gambier
SA Dairy Farmers’ Association chief executive officer Andrew Curtis said a review of ...
We're encouraging everyone to participate in Healthy Bones Action Week and will be promoting on our social pages, we look forward to seeing the community sharing their enthusiasm for bone health.
The Primary School years are a crucial time for ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers Association is encouraging all South East water licence holders to attend one of the upcoming public consultation meetings being held by the Limestone Coast Landscapes Management Board during August.
Over the coming weeks, meetings will be ...
Australia’s peak dairy farmer representative body says making the Food and Grocery Code (FGC) mandatory will benefit dairy farmers and create a level playing field for all suppliers.The Federal Government yesterday committed to implementing all 11 recommendations contained ...
The opening of one of South Australia’s most impressive dairies by the Premier this week demonstrates that the future of dairying in South Australia has clear ambition and a confident future.
The Mount Compass dairy, owned by the Brokenshire family ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) announces its pride in the launch by Premier Peter Malinauskas and Minister Clare Screiven of the South Australian Dairy Industry Action Plan 2024-2029. The plan is designed to set the pathway for the SA ...
An Urrbrae Agricultural High School year 12 student has received the heifer calf she won at the ST Genetics Australia Dairy Youth Expo last year and decided to pass the heifer on to her classmates as a way to help ...
The government has pledged more than $30 million in funding for the repair of levees damaged in the 2022-23 River Murray flood, but many have labelled it a case of too little, and too late.
Last week, the state and ...
The Albanese and Malinauskas Governments are partnering to progress critical remediation works to government-owned levees in ...
The Albanese Government is turbo-charging Australia’s agricultural traceability systems, with $11 million in government grants available to make it easier for farmers to get their goods to consumers and overseas markets.
The Government will fund $6 million for innovative ...
G'day everyone, its lovely to see so many from the agriculture industry here today.
An Industry that feeds Australia and the world, that generates billions of dollars of wealth for our country, that employs thousands from our cities to ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers Association is pleased to announce the appointment of Robert Brokenshire as President of SADA. The appointment follows the recent resignation of John Hunt as President after six years.
Robert is a dairy farmer from Mount ...
After more than a decade on the Board and the past six at the helm, President John Hunt has announced his decision to step away from the board, allowing him to concentrate on family and new business ventures.
...SADA welcomed three new board members at its 86th Annual General Meeting held on Tuesday 15 November 2022 in its offices at Glandore.
Gary Zweck is returning after a four year stint on the Dairy SA board. Gary runs a ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) has welcomed the collaborative approach of the Australian Government and National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) in signing the Global Methane Pledge.
The SA Dairyfarmers' Association Board has been announced to carry the organisation forward for another twelve months.
There were positions in the South East and Central regions up for election at the association's annual general meeting on 17 November ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) fully supports the Levy Poll Advisory Committee (LPAC) in relation to its work reviewing the dairy industry's levy.
In July the LPAC recommended a poll be conducted of all dairy farmers to determine ...
SA Dairy Industry Fund Executive Officer Tom Cosentino has been named the SA winner of the 2021 Cattle Council of Australia (CCA) and NAB Agribusiness Rising Champions Initiative.
Now in its eleventh year, the Rising Champion Initiative is a joint ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) alpha traceability trial is officially underway.
Cutting-edge technologies will be used to improve supply chain visibility and industry transparency as part of the trial, which was officially launched by SA Minister for Primary Industries ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) welcomes the release of national traceability guidelines.
The guidelines were announced during yesterday’s (7 September) meeting of the National GS1 Traceability Advisory Group (NGTAG), where Australian Government Senator Susan McDonald officially released the Australian ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) has recognised several outstanding members of the industry at SA dairy’s night of nights.Bool Lagoon’s Andrew Cavill, Jamie Nietschke from Moppa and Meningie’s Timothy Wright were named SADA-sponsored award winners at the South Australian ...
The South Australian Dairy Association (SADA) expresses its thanks to Senator Pauline Hanson for her concerns regarding the dairy industry in Australia by recommending a floor price however, her concern if enacted, would do more harm than good to dairy ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) welcomes the release of the Exposure Draft of the Dairy Industry (Mandatory) Code circulated by the Commonwealth Government.
In a 2018 report the ACCC was highly critical of the imbalance in market power ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) congratulates all successful candidates in the weekend’s federal election.
The successful candidates from both the House of Representatives and the Senate have a duty to represent the best interests of our state and SADA ...
Animal Liberation organisations have become more active in recent times and there is credible information that some of these organisations are planning a day of action for 8 April 2019.
At this stage the activity seems to be concentrated on ...
The picture presented by the milk supply chain in Australia isn’t a pleasant landscape, it has all the coherence of a Salvador Dali painting crashing into a Picasso.
Surrealism and cubism are distortions of reality and the milk supply chain ...
The announcement by Woolworths today that they are going to raise the price of $1 milk to $1.10 per litre is welcome. However, while it is a recognition of the harm that is being done by predatory market pricing by ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers Association has pronounced judgement on the major party’s responses to the major issues affecting dairy farmers prior to the next SA election.We sent out letters discussing areas that concerned SADA to Labor, Liberal, SA Best and ...
The last week has been filled with commentary and vitriol regarding the Murray Darling Basin Planand its fate. South Australian dairy farmers are the last productive users of Murray River waterbefore it heads into the Coorong. The water is important ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) today released their policy statement and calledupon all political parties in SA to adopt them.The simple policy document is not a comprehensive charter regarding all issues that face the industry todaybut rather matters that ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers Association today expressed bewilderment at the arrogance of the Weatherill government
“Trust us on looking after children who are wards of the state you said, and yet you failed them, trust us on looking after older south ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers Association today agreed with the Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull‘s conclusion that natural gas companies need a social license to drill for gas in some of the most pristine and premium farmlands in the world.
Comments by the ...
It is a mixed bag - the SA Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) welcomes a number of measures contained in the federal budget handed down this week while other matters are of concern.
The Instant asset write off has been extended for ...
The SA Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) welcomes the resolution of the backpacker tax.
SADA President John Hunt said after 18 months of lobbying and a numbe of false starts, the agricultural sector finally has a decision that provides certainty for backpackers and ...
The South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association (SADA) is concerned that South Australian government run hospitals are importing milk from interstate and overseas.
The use of local milk allows ailing South Australian to have access to the freshest milk to assist in ...The South Australian dairy industry was represented by SADA (the South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association) at the recent Dairy Symposium held in Melbourne. But where to now?
SADA President, John Hunt highlighted that it was pleasing that all state dairy ...
NEWLY appointed South Australian Dairyfarmers’ Association President John Hunt will address profitability and transparency in industry processes, along with the farmer’s right to farm, as he embarks on his leadership of the State’s peak dairy farmer advocacy group.
“As President of ...